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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]op here - i have 3 young boys, no one is specialized in any yet and the oldest 2 seem happy doing most things.

talking to friends with older kids, it seems like if you want to play at even the local competitive level, it gets very intense by late elementary for most common sports.  it also sounds like a lot of the less competitive clubs wind down then or only people that are brand new to the sport stay in them. so you're either playing 4 day a week year round basketball at 12 or you're not playing at all.

i'm looking for the sports that are just a lot less common and therefore you can stick with them, be good at them, compete etc but not 15 hours a week year round at 12.  I figure skated and danced and my sister did gymnastic - we both competed and practiced a few times a week through high school. we loved the competition aspects and wouldn't have wanted to just do it for fun practice only - my impression is that that level of commitment in those sports today wouldn't get you anywhere.[/quote]

There are rec level basketball and soccer all the way through high school where it is one practice a week and one game a week. But those kids aren’t making the high school teams. [/quote]

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I don’t understand how OP wants kids to be competitive while not putting in the same work as the kids who they’re competing with. Kind of a primary lesson we want kids to learn is that hard work yields more success. At some point (middle school?) they have to put in the work to be good.[/quote]

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